How to Get Your Luggage Back When the Airline Loses It

How to Get Your Luggage Back When the Airline Loses It

You’ve just arrived in Orlando for a holiday with the in-laws, and your bags are on vacation as well—in South Dakota. Here’s how to get your worldly possessions back and get on with your relaxing.

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10 Outdoorsy Gifts for Hikers, Campers and Other Outdoor Adventurers

Have a trail-cutting backpacker or first-tracks-etching skier on your holiday shopping list? Our list of holiday gifts includes unique ideas for water, land, snow and air. Get it done right this year.

Southwest Airlines Will Let You Use iMessage Onboard For $2

Southwest Airlines Will Let You Use iMessage Onboard For $2

Southwest is so awesome. You can watch TV for free onboard, the flight attendants aren’t jerks, and now you can use iMessage during your flight for just two bucks.

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Vespa My Segway: Bel & Bel’s Zero Scooter Adds Italian Style To Geek Travel

Vespa My Segway: Bel & Bel's Zero Scooter Adds Italian Style To Geek TravelThe Zero Scooter from Bel & Bel combines a Segway with a Vespa to create the oddest two-wheeled personal transport anyone’s ever seen. This extremely cool makeover of Dean Kamen’s geek icon just might be the coolest & cutest thing on two wheels.

5 Ways to Pack Your Suitcase Way More Efficiently

5 Ways to Pack Your Suitcase Way More Efficiently

Doesn’t matter if you’re going away for a few nights or a fortnight, there’s no need to carry more matched luggage than Princess Vespa. With a bit of planning and these simple storage techniques, you’ll be able to pack your holiday’s worth of gear into a standard carry-on.

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The Perfect Toiletry Bag For Those Morally Opposed To Organization

The Perfect Toiletry Bag For Those Morally Opposed To Organization

Organization is almost an art form—and let’s face it—not everyone’s an artist. If your suitcase and toiletry bag tend to slowly (or quickly) devolve into a homogenous nest of clothing and travel accoutrements, you’ll appreciate what the Lay-n-Go has to offer. Specifically: an easy way to keep your toiletries separate without having to reorganize them when it’s time to go.

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How to Travel Around the World for $418

How to Travel Around the World for $418

If you thought the lowest fares for flights listed on sites like Expedia or Kayak were the cheapest way to jet around the world, you’re wrong. Using every trick in the air travel book, Steve Kamb flew some 35,000 miles across nine continents. It cost him just $418 out of pocket, and this is how he did it:

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Google Maps Street View now guides you through big transit stations

As of today, Google Maps will now let you see dynamic 3D renderings of the insides of airports and train stations. The update should help guide you through some of the most directionally confusing aspects of your travels this holiday season: transit hubs. As of this moment, the growing list of locations applies to 16 […]

10 of the Most Ridiculous Flight Horror Stories Ever

10 of the Most Ridiculous Flight Horror Stories Ever

With so many people cooped up in a tiny cabin 30,000 feet in the air, it’s inevitable that at least one flight experience in your life is going to be less-than-stellar. But some experiences are much, much worse than others. So while you’re traveling home this holiday season and that baby next to you won’t stop screaming, just be glad you weren’t on any of these flights. And if you were, we are so, so sorry.

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Emoya Hotel & Spa: Pay To Stay In Poverty

Many of us in North America are used to living in relative luxury
compared to much of the world. For us, "roughing" it is camping where
there’s no plumbing or sleeping in European hostels with nothing but our
back packs. I won’t trivialize it, of course, many North Americans do
know what it is like to struggle, but most of us won’t have to live
shanties for the bulk of our lives, with no electricity, heat, or
running water.